Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-08

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The wal department promotions include
I Olsen, of Minnesota, to a 81, 200 clerk
ship, and H.. A. Hayward, Minnesota, u.
G. Campbell. Dakota, F. NJ. Jordan and
b. E.. Davis, Nebraska, to $1,000 places.
all in the adiutant-general's Office.
A dispatch from Morgan, Texas says:
The hardest rain ever known here began
Tuesday night the Both inst, and is still
falling. The damage is estimated at
thousands of dollars. Both the Texas
Central and the Gull. Colorado, & Sante
Fe railways are badly damaged, and
traids will be cut of for many days. Four
business houses and nine residences here
have been washed way. At Whitney and
Meridian many houses were washed away,
Aman was drowned at Meridsn. The loss
to the railroad is 500, 600.
The fisheries commission is to include a
member of the Canadian government, and
1t Is the opinion in London that Sir John
A. Mcdonald will be asked to serve. Sir
Lionel Saekville West, British minister
at Washington, will also join the commits
sion, as will likewise, so IL is rumored. Sir
Charles Upper. The Telegraphsays: Nj.
Chanberlain's board Of trade experience
viii prove valuable TO him in his capacity
as a member of the board Of control of
fisheries. aud he Is pre-eminently the man
to unravel the ~technicalities of the matter
and devise a reasonable settlement OF the
fisheries question il such a thing is posi-
Gle. Mr.. Chamberlain will go to America
in November.
Postmaster kaibls Of Vivian township,
Wisconsin, is charged with being criminal
ly intimate with his oldest daughter. aged
nineteen. Mr.. Kaible is class leader in the
German Methodist Episcopal church and
was summoned before a committee ap-
pointed by the church, to whom he con.
fessed his crime, He has always been re-
garded as an upright, conscientious citi.
zen.
Bishop William l.. Harris, Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, is lying at the point
of death at his resident in New York. He
has heart disease.
Prof John Avery. late professor of
Greek in Bowdoin college. died in Bridge
ton Me. He was master OF fifteen Ian
guages and a frequent contributor to
magazines.
Rose Eytinge, OF Days an
peared as IN amateur actress in 1852, and,
after Maggie Mitchell, is the Oldest actress
on the stage who preserves the attractive
ness OF her youth.
With regard to the statement that our
government has appointed fishery com.
missioners, this can be said upon the au-
thority OF the secretary OF State: No com.
missioners on the part of the United States
have been selected and no official notitica.
tion on the part OF the British to what
ever proposition had been made by our
state department had reached here prior
to the announcement in parliament.
New York special: The nuptials OF /. ].
Merrill, professor OF geology at Columbia
college. and Miss Winiired Edeerton OF hi.
pom, Wis, were solemnized al Trinity
church on the LIST. The wedding was the
elimination OF a eourtship begun while the
bride was a student at Columbia, where
she received a degree of Ph. ID. This was
the BrAt time Columbia ever conferred a
degree upon a Woman. The lady is one OF
the best known and most talented mem
bers Of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
Lord Salisbury has written a letter to
the Conservative in the Bridseton division
oil Glasgow, in explanation OF their defeats
IN the recent election, in which he SAYS: By
deSterous ambiguity OF language many
LiberalUnionists have been persuaded
that Mr.. Gladstone has abandoned hi.
separatist designs. In course OF time tn.
Gladstonian policy must be explained def.
inlteiy, and the exerticns OF the Unioa 9ets
VIII receive their triumphant reward.
Inc interior department calls on Attor-
uey General Garland to proceed against
the Northern Pacific Tor alleged illegal tim.
Der cutting IN Washington Territory.
The Butler club of Boston held a dinner
IN commemoration OF the taking OF Hat
teras, twenty-five years ago. In his speech.
zen. Butler advocated a service pension
Tor every man who had been in the war.
and said that as 500 as all Union soldiers
had thus been cared for, the surplus in the
treasury should be used to pension con-
tedsrates, on the ground that they were
not responsible Tor the war, but were suI-
ierers by it.
Josiah Terrill was executed at Colum.
bus. Ohio and proclaimed his innocence
after he had been brought upon the scaffold.
Ierriii murdered Charles Phelps. near
Pomeroy, for his money.
Joseph Hiekson, general manager of tha
Grand Trunk railway, has been indicted
on a charge OF manslaughter. Aeorouer's
jury had previously brought Ia a verdict
holding the railway company criminailv
responsible Tor the death OF Lahranche
ana fremblay, run over and killed by q
train July IL.
Glasgow university has conferred the de.
gree oil LID. upon United States Consul
Underwood Of Glasgow.